Christopher Hitchens, Anti-Identitarian
Hitchens didn’t just see how identity politics could warp a person’s ideas and principles—he understood that it could replace them altogether.
Matt Johnson
· 8 min read
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'Systemic Racism'—An Unhelpful Concept
Is racism an individual or systemic problem? Traditionally, racism was broadly recognized as an interpersonal phenomenon: reflexive antipathy towards an identifiable “other,” supported by the negative cultural tropes and stereotypes used to inflame resentment and justify discrimination. This was the definition used by history’s most prominent anti-racist figures, from
Samuel Kronen
· 8 min read
Cancel Culture Comes for Woody Allen (Again)
It’s no use demanding ethics, logic or accountability from a mob because the mob has no identity or legal status.
Quillette
· 6 min read
Making the Best of Enforced Solitude: Quillette's Quarantine Book Club
By way of aspirational example, consider the 12th-century case of Hildegard von Bingen‚ whose epic transformation during her own lengthy isolation paved the way to sainthood.
Jonathan Kay
· 8 min read
Don't Test, Don't Tell: The Bureaucratic Bungling of COVID-19 Tests
The offenders include rich countries like the United States and Japan, vast countries like Indonesia and India, communist countries like China and Vietnam, theocracies like Iran and Saudi Arabia, oligarchies like Russia and Nigeria, social democracies like Germany and France.
Ben Hunt
· 8 min read
A Closer Look at 'White Fragility' Theory
Why might a social psychological concept gain such broad traction despite being poorly defined and weakly researched? Perhaps because it is true.
Valerie Tarico
· 10 min read
Trailblazing Pete Buttigieg Revealed the Extent of ‘Progressive’ Homophobia
There is a certain kind of progressive writer who has convinced himself that there is only one way to be gay; and if you don’t fit that mold, you’re a class-war traitor who doesn’t even count as part of the LGB community.
Brad Polumbo
· 7 min read
As Erdoğan Weaponizes Turkey's Migrants, Greece Pays the Price
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tweeted on Sunday. “The borders of Greece are the external borders of Europe. We will protect them.”
Nektaria Stamouli
· 6 min read
Scandinavian Airlines: Get Woke, Cry Wolf
The message, in short: Nothing is genuinely Scandinavian. Be it meatballs or paternity leave, everything comes from other countries.
Paulina Neuding
· 5 min read
The Decline of the Great American Family Saga
In February, the Atlantic published a much discussed essay by David Brooks entitled “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake.” Brooks noted that the conditions that once made nuclear families viable—strong unions, plenty of jobs that paid living wages, inexpensive housing and transportation and education costs, stay-at-home mothers, high numbers
Kevin Mims
· 13 min read
Masculinity, Emasculation, and Breast Cancer in Men
Once committed though to a “breast cancer is emasculating” mantra, some health sociologists and patients have come up with a wordplay workaround.
Richard Wassersug
· 7 min read
The Two Middle Classes
The struggle between the two middle classes is not just a matter of wealth and power, but also of retaining the social basis for democracy itself.
Joel Kotkin
· 10 min read
An Alternative Feminist Perspective on Abortion
The fight to enshrine the right to unrestricted abortion in law is based on ideological feminism’s two main premises: victimization and what I call “undifferentiation.”
Silvia G. Poratelli
· 12 min read
The Balkanization of Art
How is art meant to happen when everyone is supposed to be thinking the same thoughts? Art goes against the grain. It’s the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.
Seth Greenland
· 7 min read
Peter Singer and the Narrowing of Discourse
The implications of this narrowing of discourse for public debate and the exploration of ideas are dire, and reflect a growing surrender to intolerance at the expense of rational discussion and analysis.
Ross Stitt
· 6 min read